urgência — meaning in English

English meaning

• casualty noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
• emergency noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
• urgency noun The quality of needing immediate attention or action.

Senses

urgência is used for these senses in English:

• emergency (sometimes, attributive) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
• urgency The quality or condition of being urgent.

casualty — full definition

1. noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
2. noun A person who has been hurt or killed in an accident or through violence.
3. noun A person who has died, rather than just been injured, in an accident or through violence; a fatality.
4. noun A member of the armed forces who becomes unable to serve, for reasons such as death, injury, illness, being captured or deserting.

emergency — full definition

1. noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
2. noun The department of a hospital that treats people needing urgent medical care.

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